A few videos from Instagram

Dance party!


Using a cardboard box as a spaceship...


Go team!!


15 short seconds of an improvised, Broadway style song and dance number the Gretje did for about 10 solid minutes.


SUPERDADDY!!!

Gretje got her giggles out, having learned the slang word "cray cray" (which means "crazy").

Trick or Treat!

This picture is so fabulous, I think we need to zoom in on this ecstatic little girl...

Gretje told me she wanted to be a black cat for Halloween. I asked her how she wanted it to look and she wasn't really sure, so I drew her this and asked what she thought:

She went totally nuts for it! So I tracked down some furry arm and leg warmers, the awesomest cat ears ever, a tail (which I had to make her own belt for out of a tote bag handle and some velcro, but that's okay), and some fleece lined black leggings and top -- the ladder of which ended up being more of a dress, but I think she might have liked that even more. Each piece arrived separately, and Gbear got more excited with each package in the mail. The last one got to our house the very day of Halloween! Perfect timing -- like a Halloween advent calendar.

Gretje's instruction: "A plain one, to show our outfits!"

Doing some kind of clapping, snapping dance.

Off to Maddie and Mirren's house!

Trick-or-treating was unseasonably warm but VERY RAINY!

I'm supposed to be motioning to them tearing down the sidewalk, but they'd already run out of the frame!

Monkey love...

Needless to say, we were happily soaked. So here's a parting shot that Daddy sneaked of me drying out afterward.

It was a pretty fantastic evening, rain included. :)

The School Hoot'n'Howl!